2018 IG Pre-Conference Sessions

New This Year: To participate in AcademyHealth's conferences, you need to have an account with AcademyHealth. When you are ready to "Begin a Submission" below, you will first be asked to login or create an AcademyHealth account if you do not already have one. Once completed, please return to this page to begin your submission.

Instructions and Needed Information for Submitting a Presentation:

1. Interest Groups

   • Select the Interest Group that best fits your abstract. An abstract is eligible for submission to one interest group, however, you are welcome to submit abstracts on different topics to more than one Interest Group. There are no limits on submissions as long as the abstracts are different.

2. Title

   • Enter your abstract title in title case. Do not end titles with a period.
   • Enter the submitter's e-mail addresses where correspondence should be sent regarding the submission.
   • Answer any additional questions specific to the call that you are submitting to.

3. Author

   • Type the lead presenter's name in the provided box.
   • If the author is already in the system, you can select their pre-populated information or update the information from previous years.
   • If the author is not already in the system, you will be prompted to create a new record.
   • You must include information for all fields with a star.
   • To add additional authors, click the 'add new author' button.
   • You can edit the order of the co-authors by using the up and down arrows. The order they appear on the screen is the order they will be listed online.
   • Only one author should be selected as the presenting author.

4. Abstract Text

   • Enter the text of your abstract (maximum 500 words).
   • Do not remove the pre-populated headings. They do not count toward your word count.
   • Do not include authors' names or references.
   • You may include tables and special characters as desired.

5. Confirmation

   • Review your submission.
   • You may return to any step of the process by using the left hand navigation bar.
   • You may print your submission at this point.
   • Once your submission is complete, press the 'conclude submission button'.
   • You may return to your submission to review or edit at any point before the January 11th deadline using the provided ID and password.

6. General Instructions

   No names or titles should be included in the abstract text. Names will be automatically hidden during the abstract review process and will be automatically inserted and properly formatted upon publication.

   Presenting authors will be automatically informed of the unique ID numbers and passwords assigned to their abstracts. Abstracts may be viewed and modified at any time between submission and the deadline, using the assigned ID# and password.

   Technical Support

   For help in submitting an abstract online, Contact technical support.

Begin a submission to the following: